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use categories so that they are compatible with the Comprehensive Plan and surrounding land <br /> uses. <br /> Concerns articulated above are relevant to the Watershed Overlay Districts. Accordingly the <br /> conditional districts should be prohibited in the University Lake Watershed Overlay District. In <br /> addition, though outside the scope of the Joint Planning Agreement, conditional districts should <br /> be prohibited in the Cane Creek and Upper Eno Protected and Critical Watershed Overlay <br /> Districts. <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Chapel Hill Town Council asks the Orange County Board <br /> of Commissioners to look further into the areas of concern explained above, in order to head off <br /> possible consequences unintended by the Board; and <br /> BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that, because of these concerns, it does not seem prudent to <br /> adopt the UDO for the sections of the ordinance identified above until the proposed language is <br /> clarified, or substantively changed where necessary. In some cases the original language of the <br /> existing ordinances should simply be restored. <br /> This the 28th day of February, 2011. <br /> Commissioner Gordon said to enter into the record emails and comments that Board of <br /> County Commissioners received. These are shown below: <br /> Draft resolution from the Town of Carrboro: <br /> RESOLUTION REGARDING THE PROPOSED UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE <br /> (UDO) FOR ORANGE COUNTY <br /> Resolution No. 78/2010-11 <br /> WHEREAS, revisions have been proposed to the Orange County Unified Development <br /> Ordinance (UDO), and under the Orange County/Chapel Hill/Carrboro Joint Planning <br /> Agreement, Carrboro is to give comments on these revisions to the Orange County Board of <br /> Commissioners; and <br /> WHEREAS, Orange County Planning Staff made a presentation to the Carrboro Board of <br /> Aldermen on January 18, 2011, at which time staff described proposed changes as essentially a <br /> consolidation of several Orange County Ordinances, with no significant changes in wording; and <br /> WHEREAS, nonetheless, with the incorporation of existing ordinances into the new UDO, <br /> important changes have been introduced in the new UDO, and although public presentations <br /> have explained certain aspects of the UDO, certain aspects remain unclear as the document is <br /> 800 pages and is not quickly understood; and <br /> WHEREAS, these particular areas have been identified as of concern to the Carrboro Board of <br /> Aldermen: <br /> • The Conditional District (CD): This "floating zoning district" is a new construct for Orange <br /> County and it refers to a district that is not mapped until a rezoning application is <br /> approved. The new wording for the CD district leaves out important text, which <br />